David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture ...

David Blight, a renowned historian whose new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, has been published to glowing reviews, will be in Rochester Dec. 3 and 4 for two engagements co-sponsored by ...

Arm of an unfinished Statue of Liberty, at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition. In a rousing lecture finale to “America at 250: A History,” distinguished Yale professors Joanne Freeman, David Blight, and ...